[lug] New feature in latest kernel?

[Kevin Fenzi]

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>>>>> "Justin-lists" == Justin-lists  <glow at jackmoves.com> writes:

Justin-lists> I just noticed this after upgrading to the newest Redhat
Justin-lists> kernel, 2.4.18-27.8.0. When I do a ps some of the
Justin-lists> processes show up with brackets around the actual
Justin-lists> process name: 8378 ?  S 0:08 [httpd]

Justin-lists> Where before it would show the actual path to the
Justin-lists> binary: xxxx ?  S 1:00 /usr/local/apache/sbin/httpd

Justin-lists> Is this supposed to be this way? It doesn't just put
Justin-lists> brackets around httpd but for other processes as well: 2
Justin-lists> ?  SW 0:00 [keventd] 3 ?  SW 0:00 [kapmd] 4 ?  SWN 0:00
Justin-lists> [ksoftirqd_CPU0] 5 ?  SW 0:00 [kswapd] 6 ?  SW 0:00
Justin-lists> [bdflush] 7 ?  SW 0:00 [kupdated] 8 ?  SW 0:00
Justin-lists> [mdrecoveryd] 12 ?  SW 0:00 [kjournald]

- From the 'ps' man page (man ps):

       Programs swapped out to disk will be shown without command
       line  arguments, and unless the c option is given, in brackets.

So, your httpd has been swapped out. 

Some of the other ones are kernel threads, which for some reason
always show swapped out. I guess because they are in kernel space all
the time. 

Justin-lists> Thanks for any help.
Justin-lists> Justin
Justin-lists> -- glow at jackmoves.com

kevin

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